Parts of the United States experiencing a resurgence of the coronavirus are “back to square zero” in their efforts to control the pandemic, infectious disease expert Michael Osterholm said on Wednesday. “Many of these cases are already in the pipeline,” between when people become infected and when they are diagnosed, he noted. Many health officials, including members of the White House coronavirus task force, have been reluctant to advocate new lockdown restrictions to curb the resurgent virus. “The bottom line is that we’re going to have to really clamp back down again,” Osterholm said. “It’s going to have to take a lot of distancing issues and we’re back to square zero in a sense ― where we were in March ― for many of these locations.”Check out Osterholm’s comments here:

Source: Huffington Post July 09, 2020 10:48 UTC